Stolen cash trail leads cops into Red Zone

Delhi police team goes to MP's Naxal area to nab culprits, arrest made in UP

In a place where even the paramilitary forces sanction a company of jawans for raids, Delhi police went in fearlessly. A Delhi police special cell, comprising 20-22 police personnel, raided a forest area near Gwalior in search of culprits who robbed a cash van robbery in the Capital's southeast district. Sensing the police after them, the accused, gunman Sandeep Kumar, driver Gautam and their associate Arun Singh, fled the area. They were finally arrested from Bulandshahar in Uttar Pradesh.

"They had first gone to forest areas in Gwalior after committing the crime pretending that the cops would not be able to reach there as it is a Naxal-affected area, but after receiving the input that a local contact there is helping them, we raided the place," sources said.

However, the accused somehow found out that the cops are hot on their trail and fled the place. The special team cell followed them and the accused were finally caught from near Bulandshahar.

"In their interrogation they revealed that they thought that cops will not be able to track them in the forest areas," sources said.

"We took about 20 men with us and raided the place on Tuesday. We had to take precautions as the area was partially Naxal affected and we had to go ahead step by step steadily.

It was a daring act," cops said.u00a0 Joint commissioner of police, special cell, said in a press conference today that Sandeep and Gautam worked for Scientific Security Management Private Ltd which was entrusted with the task of providing security to HDFC Bank ATMs.u00a0

The trio had told the police that they abandoned the cash van in Haryana's Faridabad and the cash box in Mathura.